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If There's a Way, Clear Channel Will Sell It

Great history here. Didn't WSB-TV also have original studios in the building that houses Ch. 11 now, and then moved into Whte Columns - making the way for WLTV?
 
Prior to White Columns, WSB radio was on the top floor of the Biltmore Hotel and WSB TV was in a small brick building behind White Columns, with the WSB TV Channel 8 transmitter next door. For the move to channel 2, Cox built the south's tallest tower near what is now the Carter Center.

WLTV took up residence in a Quonset hut behind WSB TV. I haven't yet found the real story: my contacts from early WSB say it's a coincidence. Land there was cheap; there was no I-85, and engineers for the two stations were always swapping equipment and helping each other out.

I theorized that WLTV took over the channel 8 tower, and the location of the building made that very inexpensive to do. But WSB says no...and there's no one left from WLTV that I know of. If anyone out there does, I'd love to interview them.
 
Richard, do you know it the STL tower behind the current building was Channel 8's transmitting tower? It doesn't look like a transmitting tower, but in those early days, I guess it was possible.
 
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